Sound Quotes · Page 238

The spell was simple and I'd said half of it before she even figured out that it was a spell. Since you…

— E.D. Baker

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

— Christian Bale

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

— Mary Pickford

Super-secret Ninja Club sounds way cooler than the whole BFF thing.

— Stephenie Meyer

Singers- nothing sounds like you. For better or worse-there is only 1 of you. Don't homogenize your sound by making it just…

— Lalah Hathaway

To make 'Sound of My Voice,' we had to conceive the entire world and understand it holistically. If you want to show…

— Zal Batmanglij

You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there.

— George Harrison

I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I…

— Kristin Chenoweth

I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound…

— Elmore Leonard

People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will…

— Chance The Rapper

The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here,…

— Ed Crane

Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid,…

— Edward Young

My music, it breathes. It's the mysticism of sound. I'm a sound seeker, and I'm enthralled with it, by what it can…

— Charles Lloyd

Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough,…

— Haruki Murakami

The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted…

— Ben Jonson

Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality…

— Michael Snow

I feel like I've mastered Dave East. For a long time I was trying to figure out who I was and what…

— Dave East

Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us…

— Diane di Prima

It's really cool that Miley Cyrus said she's the biggest feminist ever. I was like, 'That's the sound of 200,000 eight-year-olds Googling…

— Kathleen Hanna

I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.

— Dolly Parton

It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines,…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear…

— Rihanna

Good organization,” said Magnus. “I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family.” Alec…

— Cassandra Clare

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

— M.C. Beaton

The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to…

— Herman Melville

When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to…

— Anton Chekhov

We've always been quite clear about how we want the songs to sound. If we can imagine the song being played at…

— Angus Young

In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way…

— David Byrne

For those who haven't done any time in the armed services a burpee starts from a standing position then jump down to…

— Spencer Matthews

Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round…

— Allen Tate

Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the…

— Wendell Berry

I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

— Gene Ween

Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it…

— Veronica Roth

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no…

— Seth MacFarlane

The reason why it is that strong, and why HipHop is so inbred, is that there is a very structured wheel, a…

— DJ Shadow

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through…

— Brian Eno

I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be…

— William Cowper

To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also…

— Frederick Lenz

I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids…

— Anonymous

I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,…

— Terry Tempest Williams